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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By P. J. Slaney
Format:Audio CD
i guess i was shocked to see this album with a two star rating! since its' release it's been an almost constant feature of my musical life, becoming a familiar soundtrack to dark winter nights when you want to go to bed early or cosy up on the sofa and let your mind wander to the darkness and strangeness outside the window.
through the use of bursts of shortwave radio broadcasting hoisted up on layers of relentlessly tense and menacing background noise, a suggestion of the intricacies and possibilities of sound as music emerges from your speakers and grips you in an icy and perfect clasp. even this many years on, the recurring eddy of ghostly noise on 'plight' makes my heart beat faster and sometimes elicits a nervous look round the room. try this album out, and listen enough to become familiar with its form...you won't be disappointed!
through the use of bursts of shortwave radio broadcasting hoisted up on layers of relentlessly tense and menacing background noise, a suggestion of the intricacies and possibilities of sound as music emerges from your speakers and grips you in an icy and perfect clasp. even this many years on, the recurring eddy of ghostly noise on 'plight' makes my heart beat faster and sometimes elicits a nervous look round the room. try this album out, and listen enough to become familiar with its form...you won't be disappointed!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Nicholas Casley
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I knew it would be an `interesting' experience to review Sylvian and Czukay's `Plight & Premonition'. I hope the following is of some assistance to anyone contemplating purchasing these landscapes of contemplation: `music' seems to restrictive a noun for the soundworlds contained therein. (For those not in the know, David Sylvian is an ex-member of British avant-garde arthouse group Japan; Holger Czukay is an ex-member of German rock-electronic group Can.)
This CD features just two tracks. The best (worth five stars) is the second of the two. It lasts sixteen minutes and it is a shame that it has to end. Adjectives that I wrote down whilst listening to it include intriguing, foreboding, soft and gentle, aerial yet earthy, soothing, enlightening, blissful and contemplative.
The second (worth four stars) is eighteen minutes in length. Here the adjectives include quizzical and cautious, cold and lonely. It is a more mobile landscape whose view blurs the further towards the horizon that you gaze. Its movement is like the lights of passing vehicle in an orange-black twilight. We hear a passing train, and a sustained low bass is ominous.
Neither track is fiery, passionate, or intellectual. In some respects I was reminded of the early work of Tangerine Dream, but with more effort and subtlety put into their construction. I rarely give five stars to CDs; on this occasion, I think it is justified.
This CD features just two tracks. The best (worth five stars) is the second of the two. It lasts sixteen minutes and it is a shame that it has to end. Adjectives that I wrote down whilst listening to it include intriguing, foreboding, soft and gentle, aerial yet earthy, soothing, enlightening, blissful and contemplative.
The second (worth four stars) is eighteen minutes in length. Here the adjectives include quizzical and cautious, cold and lonely. It is a more mobile landscape whose view blurs the further towards the horizon that you gaze. Its movement is like the lights of passing vehicle in an orange-black twilight. We hear a passing train, and a sustained low bass is ominous.
Neither track is fiery, passionate, or intellectual. In some respects I was reminded of the early work of Tangerine Dream, but with more effort and subtlety put into their construction. I rarely give five stars to CDs; on this occasion, I think it is justified.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By P. A. Smith
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
When a CD/Album has only two tracks on it, one of which is over 18 minutes long and the other is over 16 minutes long, you know you are in for something interesting. Equally when you see that the first "instrument" listed as being played by Holger Czukay is a Radio you would be right in presuming that you are likely to hear something on the verges of the avant garde. And you would, of course, be right to think that! This is the first of two collaberations between "the most beautiful man in pop" of the late seventies/early eighties and Japan lead singer (David Sylvian) and former Stockhausen pupil and German experimental art band Can member(Holger Czukay)-their second collaberation being Flux + Mutability a year later. David Sylvian fans are more likely to buy this album to complete their set, although curious to hear what he is up to, than to rate this among their favourites. It is music to space out to. Music that requires you to lie on your bed or sofa, possible wearing headphones, and chill out to, letting to tones and colours of the music wash over you. It is very relaxing to listen to it this way. I usually fall asleep half way through the second track! I think that Holger Czukay fans will also view this as a slight departure from his more serious music intentions. It is an ambient and moody affair along the lines of an eerie movie soundtrack (which would no doubt star Dennis Hopper in it somewhere!) and although not an album for everyone it does have its place in any ambient music collection.
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'll skip the adjective laden reviews as other people have got here first and done a better job than I would have done. This is siblime chill out music, but you need it loud and without distractions. It's music that deserves attention. Lie in the bath or stare out of the window at night watching the rain fall. I distrust Sylvian since he left Japan, and his recent (ish) Manafon album shows how far into his own belly button he can go when he's left to his own devices, but when he hits form, he can work magic, and this album is definatly the latter.
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